| The weather men were telling everyone to stay at home and    
        not risk the gales and rain, so we went to Pembrokeshire.   
         Briefly, Friday was nice, Saturday was wet, and Sunday morning was   
        pretty good, with waves.   
        We went down to Whitesands Bay on Friday afternoon where a rather   
        charming American lass, obviously impressed with the size of my   
        equipment (it was hanging around my neck), asked me to take her photo   
        while she posed dramatically, silhouetted against the setting sun. At   
        one point I was holding her hat, her scarf, my camera, her iPhone, her   
        camera and trying to take photographs with the latter two items. She   
        kept examining the photos, and telling me exactly what effect she was   
        looking for, I think she must have been related to Steven Spielberg. I   
        must have fancied her or I'd have dropped all her stuff in a heap on the   
        beach.    
        I think I could have pulled. She didn't offer us a lift up the hill   
        in her car though.    
        Saturday was horribly wet. We were going to walk round to Porthclais or St Non's, but    
        Bryan was wearing specs and couldn't see where he was putting his feet   
        and we didn't want him going over the cliff! We bailed out at St Justinian and went to the Farmers Arms in St Davids instead, where a   
        small lake formed around us, and a stream then flowed gently downhill over the tiles. The staff were   
        very good about it.    
           
        It's a good job that the wind was generally onshore because the gusts were certainly strong enough   
        to be dangerous. The landlord of the Ship at Solva told us he'd been blown off his feet in the car   
        park, and he wasn't a small man.   
         On Sunday we walked down to St David's Head and watched the waves for   
        a bit before starting for home. Then the rain started again.  
         Number of other people seen on the coast path (beaches excepted) all weekend = 0. There are   
        some sensible folk about.   
         Recommended: Ship Inn at Solva for excellent curries.  
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